There are many ways to get your data into DataTables, and if you are working with seriously large databases, you might want to consider using the server-side options that DataTables provides. With server-side processing enabled, all paging, searching, ordering etc actions that DataTables performs are handed off to a server where an SQL engine (or similar) can perform these actions on the large data set (after all, that's what the database engine is designed for!). As such, each draw of the table will result in a new Ajax request being made to get the required data.
Server-side processing is enabled by setting the serverSideDT
option to true
and
providing an Ajax data source through the ajaxDT
option.
This example shows a very simple table, matching the other client-side processing examples, but in this instance using server-side processing.
First name | Last name | Position | Office | Start date | Salary |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
First name | Last name | Position | Office | Start date | Salary |
The Javascript shown below is used to initialise the table shown in this example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | $(document).ready(function() { $('#example').dataTable( { "processing": true, "serverSide": true, "ajax": "scripts/server_processing.php" } ); } ); |
In addition to the above code, the following Javascript library files are loaded for use in this example: